These days, though, the fight that made it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court is considerably calmer. In fact, the biggest issue so far amounts to nothing more than a parking squabble.

The Aware Woman Clinic, where federal courts established the first buffer zone to shield clinic patients from protesters, was torn down because of the widening of U.S. Highway 1. Its owner, Patricia Windle sold it rather than struggle through a move.

A new abortion facility, operated by a veteran Orlando and Daytona Beach clinic owner, has opened its doors in another location. The Women’s Health Center of Melbourne, owned by Tammy Sobieski, is in a strip mall called Suntree Plaza.

The clinic sits in back of the shopping center, shielded from passing traffic by a string of mom-and-pop-style shops. The clinic’s name isn’t on the building.

Protesters have demonstrated on the sidewalk surrounding the plaza, but from that location the clinic is barely visible. Because the plaza is private property, protesters have been prohibited from parking in the plaza lots. They also face arrest for trespassing if they enter the plaza. No arrests have been made so far, but protesters have been issued warnings.

No-parking areas on the street bordering the plaza are also off limits. This prompted protesters, and some plaza tenants, to park in an open grassy area between the plaza and a Brevard County fire station, but now the station has been fenced in and the last of the grass parking roped off with police tape.

Meredith Raney, a Melbourne man active in the anti-abortion movement, thinks the Brevard County Sheriff’s Department is being overly zealous in protecting the clinic. Raney has written the head of the FBI asking for an investigation of Sheriff Phil Williams.

Raney says the days of yelling and screaming outside a clinic are over for him and others. “Talking in conversational terms — not yelling, not screaming — is the way to solve problems without killing their babies,” Raney said. Now, he says, all he wants to do is to be allowed to practice what he calls “reproductive health counseling’‘ outside the clinic doors.

Windle calls Williams “a saint” for enforcing existing laws. She said she had to beg Melbourne Police for enforcement in her years of operation inside the city limits.

But Williams said he is no saint and that he most definitely is not taking sides on the debate. “I could care less about the cause that either individual champions. My sole job is to see the laws of the state as well as the rights of private property owners and the safety of the public are lawfully enforced and protected,” Williams said.

Clinic owner Sobieski says she doesn’t want to join any public debate. “My work is not about Meredith Raney, the neighbors, none of that has anything to do with me,” she said. “My work is to offer a space to have a conversation with women about family planning, women’s health, pap smears with cancer, abortion, breast lumps and birth control.”

Sobieski says the anti-abortion protesters haven’t caused any major disruptions. “It’s almost like they are all in a play, and while that’s going on, we’re inside taking care of women who call us on the phone and make an appointment for our services,” Sobieski said.

Perhaps those most affected are the small-businesses owners in the strip mall. “Of course it’s affected our business,” said Floyd Bradley, owner of Niki’s Restaurant. “It used to be the construction workers could park their trucks on the side of the road and come over here for lunch. Now they can’t do that.”

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Freedom: The Model of Christian Liberty (DVD)

“Give me liberty or give me death!”

Patrick Henry’s famous declaration not only helped launch the War for Independence, it also perfectly summarized the mindset that gave birth to, and sustained, the unprecedented experiment in Christian liberty that was America.

The freedom our Founders envisioned was not freedom from suffering, want, or hard work. Nor was it freedom to indulge every appetite or whim without restraint—that would merely be servitude to a different master. No, the Founders’ passion was to live free before God, unfettered by the chains of autocracy, shackles that slowly but inexorably bind men when the governments they fashion fail to recognize and uphold freedom’s singular, foundational truth: that all men are created in the image of God, and are thereby co-equally endowed with the right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

This presentation is a similar call, not to one but many. By reintroducing the principles of freedom that gave birth to America, it is our prayer that Jesus, the true and only ruler over the nations, will once again be our acknowledged Sovereign, that we may again know and exult in the great truth that “where the Spirit of the LORD is, there is liberty” (2 Cor. 3:17).

Welcome to the Second American Revolution!

This DVD features “Liberty: The Model of Christian Liberty” along with “Dawn’s Early Light: A Brief History of America’s Christian Foundations.” Bonus features include a humorous but instructive collection of campaign ads and Eric Holmberg’s controversial YouTube challenge concerning Mitt Romney’s campaign for president.

Abortion Clinic 911 Calls (DVD)

Exposes the Dangers of Abortion to Women!

These shocking eyewitness accounts expose the dangers of abortion not only to unborn children, but to the health and lives women as well. An antidote to the smokescreens of the liberal media, these short clips show what really happens in and around abortion clinics.

Although the content is emotionally gut-wrenching, these videos have been used in church seminars and small groups to educate Christians on the abortion issue and to lead people toward a pro-life position. Contains 2 hours and 40 minutes of materials that can be shown separately.

Sixteen Christian leaders and scholars answer some of the most common questions and misconceptions related to this volatile issue:

1. Are we under Law or under Grace?
2. Does the Old Testament Law apply today?
3. Can we legislate morality?
4. What are the biblical foundations of government?
5. Was America founded as a Christian nation?
6. What about the separation of Church and State?
7. Is neutrality a myth?
8. What about non-Christians and the Law of God?
9. Would there be “freedom” in a Christian republic?
10. What would a “Christian America” look like?

The Silent Scream (DVD) Eight Languages

“When the lives of the unborn are snuffed out, they often feel pain, pain that is long and agonizing.” – President Ronald Reagan to National Religious Broadcasters Convention, January 1981

Ronald Reagan became convinced of this as a result of watching The Silent Scream – a movie he considered so powerful and convicting that he screened it at the White House.

The modern technology of real-time ultrasound now reveals the actual responses of a 12-week old fetus to being aborted. As the unborn child attempts to escape the abortionist’s suction curette, her motions can be seen to become desperately agitated and her heart rate doubles. Her mouth opens – as if to scream – but no sound can come out. Her scream doesn’t have to remain silent, however … not if you will become her voice. This newly re-mastered version features eight language tracks and two bonus videos.

Amazing Grace: The History and Theology of Calvinism (DVD)

Does this teaching make man a deterministic robot and God the author of sin? What about free will? If the church accepts Calvinism, won’t evangelism be stifled, perhaps even extinguished? How can we balance God’s sovereignty and man’s responsibility? What are the differences between historic Calvinism and hyper-Calvinism? Why did men like Augustine, Luther, Calvin, Spurgeon, Whitefield, Edwards and a host of renowned Protestant evangelists embrace the teaching of predestination and election and deny free will theology?

This is the first video documentary that answers these and other related questions. Hosted by Eric Holmberg, this fascinating three-part, four-hour presentation is detailed enough so as to not gloss over the controversy. At the same time, it is broken up into ten “Sunday-school-sized” sections to make the rich content manageable and accessible for the average viewer.

The Abortion Matrix:
Defeating Child Sacrifice and the Culture of Death is a 195-minute presentation that traces the biblical roots of child sacrifice and then delves into the social, political and cultural fall-out that this sin against God has produced. You can order this series on DVD, read the complete script and view clips on-line...continued ...